Congresswoman: High Corporate Tax Rate in Current Law 'Just a Suggestion'

(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-N.H.) said that high corporate tax rates in America are “just a suggestion.”

Shea-Porter made the comments at a WMUR-TV town hall style forum in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on July 29th.

“We need a tax system that will be fairer to the middle class and that will end a lot of the subsidies and tax breaks that we see, “ Shea-Porter said. “We know that the rates that the corporations pay is too low. Now, they talk about that we have a high rate and we do have a high rate in the country--but it’s just a suggestion.”

“People don’t really pay that. So, I think Americans are realizing that we’re not being fair about this - that our tax code is wrong,” Shea-Porter added.

Earlier in the evening Shea-Porter singled out Facebook for not having paid any federal taxes in 2012 as an example of why the tax system is unfair and needs to be changed.